Gen 6:4 There were Nephilim in the earth in those days

[flowperson]

Originally Posted by wil

Namaste Flow,

looks like that belongs on that human gene thread!

Namaste wil...Yes. My take on it all is that biblical mythology and modern science and technology are beginning to noticeably converge...and not necessarily in a harmonic fashion. I did also post this link on the Science and the Universe thread that you recommended.

About eight years ago, I had a conversation with my pastor and informed him that we were, at the time, about one third of the way into the book of Genesis. He didn't argue the point.

flow....

[Bruce Michael]

You can read about the Manichean version of the Book of the Giants
here:

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_sd/bgiants_summary.html

THE Nephilim/Gigantium were formerly known as 'the walking trees'. There was a resemblance: the thick of the neck adjoining the ill- shapen trunk; the head, by contrast, small and ill-defined; the veins protruding and the digits long and knobby. The clumsiness of movement, the charcoal voice, deep and dry - lumbering giants, if you like.

That which was human - had been human - was simple; it was a problem, in measure, that they had became ensouled in marriage as it were, by ominous entities, later to the date of their first appearance as manifest.

However, it is true that some escaped and made their way into the early civilisations under the pretense of being gods appointed to Man. This may have been believable, had they not been in the habit of eating men deliberately.

-The Elder Brothers, THE NEPHILIM & THE SA'TANS

-Br.Bruce

[Dondi]

FYI, I found an old thread on the subject of the Nephilim:

The Nephilim Race

[Dondi]

Originally Posted by excerpt

[Chapter 54]

"1 And I looked and turned to another part of the earth, and saw there a deep valley with burning 2 fire. And they brought the kings and the mighty, and began to cast them into this deep valley. 3 And there mine eyes saw how they made these their instruments, iron chains of immeasurable weight. 4 And I asked the angel of peace who went with me, saying: ' For whom are these chains being prepared ? ' And he said unto me: ' These are being prepared for the hosts of Azazel, so that they may take them and cast them into the abyss of complete condemnation, "

Could this be Tartarnus, as mentioned in II Peter 2:4?

"For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell [Translated in Greek as Tartarnus], and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

[Bruce Michael]

Originally Posted by Dondi

Could this be Tartarnus, as mentioned in II Peter 2:4?

"For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell [Translated in Greek as Tartarnus], and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

You may be right Dondi.
The text in S. Jude- "reserved in everlasting chains until the judgment of the great day" also refers to the Nephilim and not Lucifer and the first fall of the angels.

-Br.Bruce

[farhan]

Another old thread, with my theory.

Who were the "Men of Old/Renown?"

[Bruce Michael]

The Kali demon (distinct from the other Kali) worshipped by the Thugs was more of an actual gorgonic being that fed off the astral entrails of their murdered victims, prompting more of the same - similar to what occurred in the Mexican Mysteries.

These vampiristic Raksasha/Nephilim beings do appear as Kali with astral human skulls "decorating" their beings.

It is interesting that Dr. Steiner talked of the task of Theosophical Society as being one of overcoming these beings.

There is no choice. The protection from the influence of Ahriman by the "Christ Mystery" "will steadily diminish."

Ahriman has been cast into fetters but only for those who "endeavor unceasingly to fathom the Christ Mystery."

-Br.Bruce
see Mephistopheles and Earthquakes 1909 1st Jan.